Design Festival

This September I’m taking part at the Design Festival – I’m extremely excited about it. 

I’ll be showing with some fabulous people (Images Surgery’s Joseph Warren and Squint/Opera) at the Medcalf Bar in Exmoth Market from 19th -27th September. 

Here’s what I’m doing…

“As a celebration of the fundamentals of print design artist Ella Johnston has stripped her colour drawings down to the essential colour elements of print production – CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black).

“Using the basic principles of the four-colour print process Ella has separated her drawings into CMYK templates (that when printed altogether would look like the original drawing). These ‘separations’ will be screen-printed individually using these process colours, then made into a 3D cube. The cube will be placed on an angle in a goldfish bowl, so each separation can be seen. There would be an accompanying leaflet explaining this basic print process.”

See www.londondesignfestival.com/ for more on the whole festival.

Now here’s a taster of the ‘broken down’ image…

Magenta

Cyan

Yellow

Black

Fruit and Veg

I set myself the challenge of drawing fruit and veg. I was very interested in the way these natural things, that nourish us, are so vibrant and beautiful in their whole state. I wanted to capture that vibrancy and their ‘heroic’ status – so I used felt-tip on a white background. Here are some examples…

M is for Mushroom

E is for Eggplant

C is for cherry

P is for potato (God's own crop)

Hello

I’m Ella Johnston, an artist.

Every week I’ll be posting up examples of recent work, my observations and general musings.